Why Write

Why am I writing this blog now? Because my wife and I have four children who are about ready to fly on their own.

Our oldest two children are twins, both boys that look nothing alike. They are Juniors in college. Our third child, a son, graduated high school this last May and is leaving for fish camp Tuesday. Our last child is our only girl and she is starting her final year of high school tomorrow.

I can now see from this viewpoint, the end of our responsibility and journey, on which my wife and I embarked on in 1985. We have looked upon our jobs as parents, from the first day, as a job of preparing our children to fly on their own. We wanted them to be self-sufficient, happy and well adjusted as adults. We felt we must pass on to them all that they will need, to survive well in society. We knew it would be a twenty-year commitment to our children in which they would be the first priority in our lives.

I wanted to document a couple of things in this blog:
1. As I think of things from the past, I want to put them down for a type of history of where we have been.
2. I want to document a day-to-day blog as we make the transition from parents to advisors over the next few years.